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Chairman of Pro Romania Victor Ponta told a news conference in Resita on Friday that early parliamentary elections will take place, but the two-round mayoral ballot won't make the cut, because the National Liberal Party (PNL) doesn't want this.
On the other hand, the Pro Romania leader believes that PNL doesn't want mayors' elections to be organized in two rounds, but that the liberals resorted to engaging responsibility for this bill for the Social Democratic Party to file a censure motion which, if it passes, will pave the way for the early election procedure.
Ponta argues that the Social Democratic Party and the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania don't have enough votes to get the censor motion adopted, so that the liberals will end up voting against their own government, as it happened with the PSD in 2017, "which means they are turning themselves into a complete laughing stock."
The Pro Romania leader also said that if the motion is not voted on, the PSD will challenge the law on the two-round mayoral election in the Constitutional Court, based on the Court's ruling of 2012 according to which the electoral law cannot be modified six months before elections.
